Has been any response from Core already? I don´t understand the euphoria of Charlie Shrem in his messages a few hours ago. With what has been announced so far, the solution to the conflict is still far away. It´s true that it´s a small approach when compared to previous positions but I don´t think that bitcoin can advance without taking Core into account. Highly announcing this agreement, given its terms, doesn´t make sense.

I don´t recommend online wallets because you don´t have control of your coins. At any time someone can guess your credentials and hack your account, the service can suffer a robbery or even close and leave with your funds. Some time ago it was posted a leak with accounts at blockchain.info, addresses and passwords, it´s easy to suffer losses with online wallets. The only case in which I would use them would be for very small amounts that you can afford to lose, to send between the exchanges if you do trading and things like that.

Spanish translation of the Ann thread is available here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1923968.0

Advances in robotics will produce an even greater effect on work than the industrial revolution. On the other hand life expectancy is greater, we live longer and we are more people on the planet. With more population and less work, the work that remains will be more precarious, with lower wages and worse conditions. Because of this in countries like Finland have been approved the Universal Basic Income and others such as Netherlands and Switzerland are studying.

Apart from this, technological advances make life easier for us even though Hollywood is obsessed with making us hate technology or scientific progress.

If the price is rising with these problems, imagine where it would be if they were solved. I guess there's a lot of money coming into the bitcoin and altcoins market lately, there are new people who are entering this world now and surely many of these new investors are people with a lot of money, that is, whales. It´s possible that for these people there is not much difference between paying 20 cents or 5 dollars in fees and they have no problem waiting a little for their transactions. For ordinary people it´s more annoying, especially to make micropayments or send small amounts of money, but not for them. Also, if there are people who are buying as a store of value, they will not have problems with paying slightly higher fees either.

The situation is a bit paradoxical, we all complain about the slowness of the network to perform the transactions, everyone complains because the fees are higher but as the network is congested everyone pays more fees for their transaction to go faster and thus contribute to the fees continue to rise, and meanwhile the miners are happy getting more profit. It´s not surprising that some miners want to keep things as they are.

The question of decentralization is not so much about a country but a company, Bitmain. There are other companies that could establish themselves in China and compete with them. Anyway, with the rise of bitcoin price may be companies in other parts of the world that could consider investing in bitcoin mining and in this way the mining power would be more distributed.

The question is that bitcoin is not the only coin that is rising, the main altcoins are having huge rises as well, it seems as if it was the big party of the cryptocoin and nobody would want to miss their piece of cake. This doesn´t seem to be a momentary hype but something that has come to stay. And this taking into account that there is still a way to go in terms of adopting bitcoin and solving its scalability problems.

To Separate bitcoin from the ramsonware attack is normal. It´s true that before it was given a worse image from the media, partly by propaganda but also by misinformation. With time bitcoin is becoming more known, there are companies and banks that are interested in blockchain technology and cryptocoins, their use expands globally and this causes greater interest and knowledge, and the media are better informed. Furthermore, the old propaganda no longer makes sense seeing how advances bitcoin in countries like Japan.

No se hasta que punto la gente corriente va a aprender a asegurar más sus archivos después de esto. Al fin y al cabo ha sido un ataque a gobiernos y grandes empresas, no a la gente corriente y ha sido un ataque organizado, no hablamos de un virus que anda por ahí, que también los hay. La gente pensará que a ellos no les va a pasar nada y en dos días esto estará olvidado, como todo. Además la mayoría de la gente no creo que tenga nada de especial valor en sus discos duros, fotos y películas como mucho y el que se quiera guardar sus archivos los mete en un pendrive y listo. Si les encriptan el disco duro se compran otro y ya está. Las empresas y organismos públicos ya son otra cosa, a raíz de esto pueden si puede que les vean las orejas al lobo y se  interesen más por la seguridad.

I´ve been asked by two friends. One asked me about the price increase, he asked me about Bitcoin and for cryptocoins and he was interested, especially when I explained him some of the possibilities of bitcoin like use it to send money to other people in other parts of the world or to pay in stores when the adoption of bitcoin is majority. The other person who asked me did it by ramsonware attack, he asked me why they required to be paid in bitcoin.

There is a website called Virwox where people buy bitcoin with paypal. They actually buy Linden $ (SLL) and then sell it for Bitcoin. They charge high rates but but it´s worth it at the end if the gap is still so large. Another option is Localbitcoins but there sellers usually ask for many verifications.

I think Mycelium is the easiest and most interesting option because it allows you to choose the type of fees you are going to pay before each transaction. Mycelium allows you to choose between four transaction types, high priority, normal, economical and low priority. If you want to make an urgent transaction you can choose high priority although you will pay a lot higher fees. If you want to save money on fees and don´t mind waiting you can choose economical. However, by choosing normal, they tend to be fast transactions because the wallet calculates the necessary fees.

I am remembering now the Year 2000 problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem. I wonder if something will happen when bitcoin reaches $2000. Miners shouting down, blockchain broken, the end of the world and other Roland Emmerich´s apocalyptic visions. 

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Bitcoins stuck in pending transactions are not out of circulation, in fact thery are in circulation. Anyway I don´t think these coins can affect the market. Buys and sells are made in exchanges. The network congestion can affect the adoption if it last too long but not necessarily the price, not in vain, despite the problems that bitcoin still has, its advantages are still greater than its disadvantages.

The point is that if you want to exchange to local currency like OP made, you have to use Bitcoin because it is the easiest coin to change for being the most popular. If one day there were the option to change local currency to an altcoin, many people would use the altcoin and so the fees would raise and it would collapse too and then everyone would go back to Bitcoin because the fees would have lowered.

Common sense says there will be a solution and that it´s a matter of time. In my opinion this solution should go through the application of segwit in a short time. It is the most supported option by the community and the safest option as the other option is showing security problems. The logical thing would be that segwit were activated and this way bitcoin can begin to solve its scalability problems

I don´t find an objective reason for this price decline except speculation, maybe sell for take profit, buy altcoins, sell, take profits and buy bitcoin again. The ETF issue I don´t think anyone had any hope for it. The other time it didn´t have as much impact, it is true that there was a drop but then almost instantly it had a rebound up again.

The other time there was more expectation but now I don´t think that anbody is really waiting for an approval, for this reason I don´t think that there will be a remarkable impact on the price. The only thing that makes this review is to provide some hope that it could be approved in the future.